Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers, sentence 3
The second was Chibiabos, who cares for the dead and lives in the Country of Souls.
Who acts: second Chibiabos · What happens: be, care, live · To what, where: second Chibiabos, Country
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Menabozho and His Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second Chibiabos), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Chibiabos | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Chibiabos | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Chibiabos | cop |
| 4 | Chibiabos | Chibiabos | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cares | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 cares | nsubj |
| 7 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Chibiabos | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 dead | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dead | det |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cares | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lives | cc |
| 12 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cares | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Country | det |
| 15 | Country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lives | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Souls | case |
| 17 | Souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Country | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Chibiabos | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the second Chibiabos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | care | present | the second Chibiabos | for the dead | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for dead=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | present | the second Chibiabos not said here | the Country of Souls | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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